St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-21

hundred, and to Chicago 81. If the tariff is
made the same west as east of st. Paul. the
20 cents will be reduced to 5,or prorating the
81 cents the entire distance, will give cents
from WatertOwn to St. Paul. He says much
will depend upon the Dakota commissioners,
but any change must be to the advantage of
Dakota towns.
Mrs. Charles Slach, a confding South Da-
kato widow, was some time since induced to
endow with her Dakota lands and hand a man
named j.. 5. Snow, u solicitor for Sioux
Falls music house, and went with him to an
Iowa town and lived as married people gener-
ally do, until Mrs. Snow No. put in an APP
pearance and claimed the situation. If that
Snow of the male persuasion did not dissolve
in the heat engendered. he disappeared, leav-
ing two females to grief, besides a nu mber of
little Shows present and to come. He left no
trail and the Dakota widow is again Slach.
Sheridan Jones, editor of the Rural Voice,
and late superintendent of public instruc-
ton, says that all the local option bill will
amount to is an expensive expression OF pub
lie opinion. That may be the case unless the
counties also elect commissioners who will
refuse to grant licenses. 1t might be ins listed
that if the county boards will not license
there is no need OF the people going to the
expense Of an election on the subject.
The venerable Waldo Potter speaks the
feeling of the farmers of the legislature in
this: Never was there louder promise, or
for granger legislation it does not appear that
single one-not even little amendment
reached the statute book. 1t was the most
remarkable exhibit of legislative do-nothng-
ativeness that we remember to have seen"
Since their return home, each member of
the legislature is explaining to his grumbling
constituents that he was opposed to the large
appropriations, except for the institutions in
his district, but he couldn't keep the boys
down. Localities that got nothing but vetoes
are specially critical.
There is quite migration of German Rus
slams from: South Dakota to Mercer county,
which is the most northerly settled county
west OF the Missouri river. That will not
long be the case, as the Manitoba extension
to Montana Is north of that and will soon
open up the country.
The Wiliamsport Record says that in EN-
mons county as early as March II cattle were
grazing on the wild GRASS, and that horses on
the range all winter digging their food from
under the snow, are looking we'll. This is the
finest county south of Bismarck east of the
river and a fine stock region.
Judge Warnock, at jamestown, has revived
the Daily Capital, which was suspended for
the winter The judge is one OF the oldest
editors and ablesu writers in the territory,
and his paper is a first-class advertisement
for one of the brightest towns OF the North.
There are but few places in Dakota which
the legal gentlemen have not occupied, but
the Dunseith Times says tn ere is no lawyer
within twenty miles of that metropolis of
the Turtle mountains, and it says there is a
fine opening for one or TWO there.
Every telegraph station on the Milwaukee
system in Dakota now receives its time at 10
a. IN. and 10 p. m. from Carlton college OBJ
servatory.
John Davis. in Douglas county, who was
out all night in the storm of Feb. II, has had
both feet amputated, but will not probably
survive.